A Checklist for Choosing Type

Re:A Checklist for Choosing Type by taremareby on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @04:37PM (#36792897)

> Comic Sans is perfect for setting children’s activity timetables that are displayed in a school playground. It’s perhaps not as appropriate for announcing scientific breakthroughs.

If it was good enough to present the discovery of the Higgs boson [1], it is good enough for me.

[1] https://youtu.be/m-dNqCbRc_Y?t=26

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Re:A Checklist for Choosing Type by behnamoh on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @04:55PM (#36793205)

Higgs Boson scientists are not necessarily graphics design experts. From what I’ve seen, a lot of times scientists just pick a font from Word and don’t care much about it.

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Re:A Checklist for Choosing Type by gffrd on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @06:22PM (#36794313)

But imagine the response the Higgs boson COULD have gotten by setting it in Arial instead!!!

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